2- Done. Leaflinux, you're a peach!3- Does a shared file on the main folder count?4- More times than I can shake a stick at.9- Does a floppy count?10- The only thing standing between me and 1337 is this one. I WILL compile my own kernel one day... (evil laughter, lightning bolts, etc.)12- Done it. For money.14- 3 down, 2 to go.20- Every other day.21- Many, many sad attempts that will one day bear misshapen fruit, I assure you.22- In my sleep. With a pencil and graph paper.24- Done.25- Wait... What??26- Phfft... Next...29- It's been years, but I'm sure I could do it again.32- Just out of curiosity.34- One of these days, I'll have WiFi, and I'll use this.38- They come up with new ones every freekin' day, how we supposed to memorize them all?39- That guy and that girl. On that show. With the ufo's.43- I've got one better... How about CONVERT x264 INTO SOMETHING SANE!!47- Took a year and a half with Windows 95, but once I was there, buddy I was THERE!48- Squirt gun. Salt water. Motherboard. You do the math...53- And taught my son at the same time.65- Ah yes, but did you power it with 1 battery cell?69- ROFL. |\|3X7...71- That's how me and my son play checkers anymore...78- Done. Qemu, you're a peach!89- Survived? Debatable. Land some delicious suckerpunches on an overzealous fanboi? You betcha!94- ROFL'd the first time. "Oh, Toto!..."

So I'm somewhere around 25% done, 50-60% do-able and the rest require investing in stuff I have no need for (Un-brick an iPhone? How 'bout you pick it out of the concrete I'm going to "accidentally" drop it in...).

I don't like 'top lists'... but the bulk of these things are things normal (l)users would do. not geeks.... the first things that come to mind would be inventing a time machine, a warp drive, and stuff like that... then stuff like designing a new computer architecture and writing an OS for it, or do some super-computing with FPGA's. One of the applications are decrypting gsm signals in near-real-time. Grabbing all kinds of stuff obscure digital stuff out of the air with modded radio's is fun too. The GNU radio project has it's own hardware and software for playing with these things... etc... but not any of the stuff on that list Seriously... learning javascript? writing a wordpress theme? Since when is stuff like that geeky? The java syntax is so simple, infants should be able to do it without effort. In fact, learning any computer language I would consider non-geeky, as any self-respecting geek would grok the syntax of any language within a few hours to a day, depending on the language. Really learning the in's and out's of a language is something done by using it every day over the years, which I don't think is what the author had in mind... meh. Ah, and according to that guy, using tinyurl is geeky now too. Aaaaarghjkllllllll.

Gothic, how many normal people take on programming? (besides a few "power users" that might do some office scripting). Java != javascript by far, and while both languages might be relatively simple and not as batshit insane as LISP, but they're still programming... which is geeky/nerdy/whatever.

TinyURL and WordPress might not apply, though. Guess I should check the whole list once I get a bit more time

Clearly the intent of the list is to expose a certain class of people to goals that they would not normally do.

So maybe if we rename this list to "100 geeky things for non-geeks to do before you die"

And then for people like Gothic we need a list of "100 normal person things for geeks to do before you die"it can include things like:"learn to drive a car""learn how to cook yourself a real dinner""learn how to talk to a girl""talk to someone about an operating system other than linux while keeping your blood pressure under 220"...

When even newspapers proclaim it's cool to be a geek (or even worse, a nerd), you know it has permeated the mainstream. Ah, modern societies, they always end up assimilating even the most obscure countercultures.